The sequel of Shimit Amin’s debut film is directed by newbie Aejaz Gulab, but looks promising

Director Shimit Amin made a stunning entry into Bollywood with his gritty shootout specialists film, the Nana Patekar starrer Ab Tak Chappan. Nana played encounter cop Sadhu Agashe and won rave reviews. Later, Shimit fell out with his mentor Ram Gopal Varma and joined Yash Raj Films. But that didn’t stop RGV from green-lighting the sequel of ATC, this time helmed by newbie director Aejaz Gulab. Nana is a part of the sequel too and still looks as impressive as he was in his first ‘encounter’ with the genre.

This time the veteran actor has Gul Panag for company; she seems to be playing the part of a crime reporter and looks convincing. From the promo it looks as if the director has used Ramu’s ‘rogue camera’ technique. The weird camera angles gave us a mild headache, so we aren’t sure how our reviewer will react. Of course, we will brave it out for Nana’s tough cop act, when we see it. Did you find the trailer of the sequel good, dear Bollywoodlifers?

Is Nana Patekar pushy? Maybe Shimit Amin and Sahil Saple, ex directors of Ab Tak Chhappan sequel, have an answer to that one

Buzz is that Ram Gopal Varma is fussing over a certain ghost nowadays. But this time it’s nothing supernatural. We are talking about ghost director Nana Patekar who is all set to direct the sequel of Ab Tak Chhappan. Apparently, the plan was to give the credit to someone else and have Nana ghost direct the film, but that fell through when Nana took the meaning of “ghost” as seriously as “director” and scared away the other official directors. RGV first chose Shimit Amin to direct ATC 2, but Nana wasn’t happy as he had had several differences with Shimit during the making of ATC. So, RGV moved on to his protege, Sahil Saple.ATC 2 was to be Saple’s debut movie as a director, but now even he has opted out after he reportedly realised he wasn’t going to get to be the actual director of the film.

Now the movie is officially in Nana’s hands. RGV claims that the decision was taken because Sahil wanted to work on another script. However, Sahil claims he isn’t working on any other script and he opted out for other reasons. Maybe the thought of Nana checking his ever move wasn’t a pleasant thought for the newbie. Anyway, now Nana is all set to return to the role of Sadhu Agashe. But with the director’s hat to balance, will he be able to recreate the magic of the first film? We wonder…